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by tkgally 4y ago
Lately I’ve been practicing a new form of exercise to me (mace and heavy club swinging, if you must know). While most of my learning has come from online videos, I’ve also bought a few self-published books by people who made the videos. The
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Yes, deciding the grammatical number of a noun based on its meaning rather than its form is common in British English: “My family are coming to see me.” “The government have decided to….”
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There’s a link to a form for submitting additions here: https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/info.php
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I’m not sure if it will happen quite as fast as you suggest, but I also expect that plugins and similar techniques will improve the reliability of LLMs pretty quickly. To the extent that the frequent reports on HN and elsewhere of unreliabl
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by tkgally 4y ago
This is my first time trying a multimodal model. I fed it some photographs I have taken and asked for responses. Here are the results: Prompt: Please describe this image to me and tell me how people seeing the image might respond to it. ht
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That is a good method, too, of course. But I don’t always learn best by proceeding through material step-by-step. Often wandering around a subject as my curiosity takes me and using a lot of trial and error have enabled to me to assimilate
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You’re right. But for some types of learning it’s not necessary to have a teacher that’s always right. If GPT-4 feeds me hallucinations occasionally about JavaScript or Python, I will find out soon enough when my programs fail to run or whe
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Has anybody tried learning a programming language from GPT-4? I’m not a programmer myself, but I have made quite a few static web pages over the years for my own use. I code the HTML and CSS by hand, and I think I have a basic understanding
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Labor and the Natural Forces (1879)(archive.org)
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Excerpt: “[W]e have organizations ... which claim that the laborer is in a condition far worse than at any time in the past; that the use of machinery throws men out of employment; that capital is oppressive; that the rich are growing riche
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Origin of Modern Calculating Machines (1921)(archive.org)
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Subtitle: “A chronicle of the evolution of the principles that form the generic make-up of the Modern Calculating Machine” From p. 190: “That all inventors deserve credit, even in the face of failure, is without question. The hours, days, m
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by tkgally 4y ago
Me, too. I called it from Japan, and the delay before answers was no more than for regular international call with a human—maybe less. The future seems to be arriving very quickly these days.
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> I still buy albums (mostly from prestomusic, in case someone wants to know) I buy my classical music from Presto Music, too. The purchase process is easy, and maybe the performers get a bit more than from streaming. I suspect that purc
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I suspect that a lot of people here are not used to this style of journalism, in which the writer foregrounds what they experienced and felt while reporting the story. Such writing used to be common in Harper's, Rolling Stone, The New
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The Internet Archive’s initial response is here: http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/ Excerpt: “[W]e will keep fighting for the traditional right of libraries to own, lend, and preserv
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The New York Times had a nice interactive article recently for subscribers showing how some office buildings can be and have been converted to residential. Most of the illustrations that tell the story didn’t seem to get captured by the Way
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No problem. My first language is English, but I worked as a Japanese to English translator for twenty years and have written books in Japanese. My personal website is linked from my user page.
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I've just started testing GPT-4 on translation from Japanese to English, but it seems to blow Google Translate out of the water. It was particularly good with a novel excerpt. I encourage people to try it with a variety of languages an
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by tkgally 4y ago
It looks like a Selectric to me, too. I worked for several years in the early 1980s in a university office equipped with Selectrics. Nothing in the examples shown looks as though it couldn’t have been done with a Selectric and some careful
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by tkgally 4y ago
I don’t know if it’s incredible, but here’s what I did with GPT-4 today. I came up with an idea for a simple but cute interactive website that I would not be able to code myself. I described the website to GPT-4, and it coded it for me. Bel
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And it was mentioned only as one item among others: “We do this with AI to help you creatively express yourself and discover new content, with the metaverse to deliver a realistic sense of presence, with new media formats to …” and “Our lea
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It’s important to note that when Chomsky writes about “a fundamentally flawed conception of language” or “the science of linguistics,” he is talking about a particular understanding of what language is and a particular subset of linguistics
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The following quote is food for thought for people who have been wondering whether AI development needs to be regulated: "I would love to understand better what’s driving all of this—what’s driving the virality. Like, honestly, we don’
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Overall I was impressed. I would have no resistance to listening to something like this regularly if there were less banter and if it were better tailored to the eclectic variety of Hacker News stories. I enjoy reading Hacker News even th
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Generative model for creating synthetic voices(blog.elevenlabs.io)
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Back when everything I read was on paper, I disliked ads in newspapers and general-interest magazines but enjoyed them in specialist magazines. The high-budget ads aimed at large audiences seemed manipulative and were seldom for products I
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Very nice! Thanks for sharing that. I look forward to spending many afternoons scrolling infinitely through Wikipedia.
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Yes. Much more so than with ChatGPT, it shows why people might come to believe that such chatbots are sentient.
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Archived version at Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230217001740/https://www.nytim...

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